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Chris Davies - May 24, 2021, 10:00am CDT Qualcomm is launching a new version of its chipset for laptops, with the Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 promising more performance for affordable Windows notebooks and Chromebooks. The successor, as you probably guessed, to late-2019’s Snapdragon 7c, this second-generation chipset keeps the multi-day battery life and embedded LTE, but throws in more performance and a boost to multimedia. The octa-core Kryo 468 CPU now runs at up to 2.55 GHz, a...

Qualcomm has announced a small, standalone Snapdragon Developer Kit for Windows 10 PCs. The device lets developers code, test, and optimize apps for Windows on ARM without needing to purchase an expensive 2-in-1 Qualcomm laptop with LTE. While no price was given, it will be cost-effective and available later this summer at the Microsoft Store. Microsoft and Qualcomm have teamed up to deliver something long belated: a proper Snapdragon Developer Kit. The compact mini PC is based on the new Snapd...

For years, Java development has been dominated by the big three IDEs: Eclipse, InelliJ IDEA, and NetBeans. But we have other good options. Among the large field of generalized, polyglot code editors that have been gaining mindshare, Visual Studio Code has become a standout, and offers impressive Java support. VS Code also delivers first-class support of other technology stacks including front-end JavaScript frameworks, Node.js, and Python. Should Visual Studio Code be your next Java IDE? This a...

A custom Visual Studio Code developer extension A feature-rich CLI for local development From code to cloud with Azure Static Web Apps Azure Static Web Apps works with both GitHub and Azure DevOps to keep your apps up to date as your code changes with no DevOps configuration required. Commits and pull requests trigger a tailored workflow to build and deploy your app to Azure. Preview environments are created for pull requests to make it easy to validate changes before you merge them. Every Azur...

A common concern as web apps implement technologies that are less user-readable (and user-alterable) than traditional HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is that the web platform becomes less open. There are certainly examples of that: Facebook obfuscates its webpage code to stymie client-side ad blocking; websites have so much JavaScript, much of it related to ads and tracking, that it is common to minify (compress) web code to hit load time targets; proposals like Googles Web Bundles have been criticiz...

| Get moving with Microsoft’s FAST web components Use FAST to build out well-designed websites with a Windows look and feel or even design your own web controls. Thinkstock It’s often hard to choose what web technology framework to use for application front ends. Do you build your own or start with technologies like Vue and React? Maybe you come in at a higher level with a web component framework like Twitter’s Bootstrap, Google’s Polymer or Salesforce’s Lightni...

Plus: Grab your updates for Adobe, SAP, Android, Intel Share Copy Patch Tuesday Microsofts May Patch Tuesday brought a lighter-than-usual load of 55 fixes for 32 of the Windows giants applications and services, which is about half what was served up in April. The Redmond-based firms Office and Windows flagships house many of the identified vulnerabilities, alongside Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Skype, and other software. Among the 55 CVEs identified by Microsoft...

Visual Studio Code 1.56 improves hover feedback, debugging April 2021 release of Microsoft’s open source code editor also improves Docker support for remote development scenarios. Credit: Dreamstime Visual Studio Code 1.56, the latest version of Microsoft’s popular open source code editor, was published May 5, bringing improvements in hover feedback, debugging, and Docker support. Also known as the April 2021 release, Visual Studio Code 1.56 changes the mouse hover feedback fo...

Rust/WinRT moniker consigned to the garbage collection Richard Speed Mon 10 May 2021 // 14:33 UTC Share Copy Microsoft has released an update for Rust for Windows (formerly Rust/WinRT) with completed support for Win32 and COM APIs. Version 0.9 of the Rust language projection turned up last week and, according to Microsoft, gives "access to the entire Windows API surface in a language-idiomatic way." Its a tacit admission that no matter how much Microsoft might hope it wi...

Rust for Windows v0.9 has recently been released and includes full consumption support, along with several other updates! With completed consumption support, you can now call any Windows APIs (past, present, and future) using the Rust language projection. Rust developers have access to the entire Windows API surface in a language-idiomatic way, allowing them to easily take advantage of the power and breadth of Windows development.  Along with this latest release, we have added new content to...